HP 1500 Series - Manual (Page 45)

ENWW Chapter 2 Printing tasks 43
Using color
This printer offers great color as soon as you set it up. It provides a combination of automatic
color features for ease of use, as well as manual settings for more precise color adjustments.
The printer provides carefully designed and tested color tables to provide smooth, accurate color
rendition of all printable colors. The printer also offers these capabilities to help manage color:
● HP ImageREt 2400
● HP ColorSmart (Windows only)
● Managing color options
● Matching colors
HP ImageREt 2400
HP ImageREt 2400 is a technology that provides you with the best color print-quality without
having to change driver settings or make tradeoffs between print quality, performance, and
memory. ImageREt 2400 produces sharp images and crisp, clear text using laser printing.
ImageREt 2400 provides 2400 dpi color laser-class quality through a multilevel printing process.
This process precisely controls color by combining up to four colors within a single dot and by
varying the amount of toner in a given area. As a result, ImageREt 2400, together with the
600-by-600 engine resolution, creates millions of smooth colors.
In contrast, the single-level printing process found in the default mode of other color laser printers
does not allow the colors to be mixed within a single dot. This process, called dithering,
significantly hinders the ability to create a wide range of colors without reduced sharpness or
visible dot structure.
HP ColorSmart (Windows only)
The Automatic color setting (HP ColorSmart) enables optimal color output automatically for
diverse types of documents. This feature utilizes object tagging that allows optimal color and
halftone settings to be used for different objects (text, graphics, and images) on a page. The
printer driver analyzes which objects the page contains and uses halftone and color settings that
provide the best print quality for each object.